PROVIDENCE was formed, or should I say evolved, in 1981 as Eternal Void (Jeff, Joe & Craig) were looking to expand their sound with the addition of a young keyboard prodigy, Mark Fasula (Jeff & Joe’s little brother), and later, Tom Nali who was interested in progressive music after the disintegration of his pop/rock band, The Rhyme... (Which Jeff, Joe & Craig would later revise)...

Craig crooning.Mark joins Eternal Void rehearsals.

After recording Moon Sliver in 1977, Eternal Void was slowly working with Mark, working on new material.

Jeff was becoming a wanted man because of his creative and talented fret work on the bass guitar and joined a Rockford band, Puppet, led by Mark Dahlgren, who I bought my Mellotron from. Joe also joined Puppet, playing drums.

I was interested in photography, and met Tom Nali when my friend John VanBarriger invited me to shoot pictures of The Rhyme, at a Hononegah High School dance.

I actually had a Providence “Flight Log” I started in 1981, documenting the early history of the band. Here are a few highlights...

Providence would never play a paid live gig. The music was too progressive to play in any bar in 1982, and Mark was too young to get in a bar anyway.

Tom would get the itch to play live again, and with Jeff and Joe having played many gigs with Puppet, and my interest in Tom’s original songs, Tom would talk us into reforming The Rhyme.

After a divorce in 2001, I was setting up my music studio in my new house when I discovered the Providence tapes in a box. I needed something to do, so I worked on putting the Providence album together.

There weren’t enough completed songs for a full length album, so I decided to finish some of the jams we recorded by adding guitar, synthesizer and vocals.

I didn’t tell the other members I was working on the project. And when I brought the completed CD to Jeff and Tom, the surprised looks on their faces was priceless.

I only wish I could have seen Joe and Mark’s reactions, but I had to mail Joe his CD, as Joe was living in another State at the time. And Jeff gave Mark, who was living in Wausau Wisconsin, his copy.